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Quiz about Some Really Really Really Big Numbers

Some Really, Really, Really Big Numbers Quiz

Everyone knows those little numbers like pi and the square root of two. This quiz is to test your knowledge of numbers in math and science that are mind-bogglingly large!

A multiple-choice quiz by adams627. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
adams627

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
301,197

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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2024

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Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. One million, or ten to the sixth power: According to the IEC, which of the following ISN'T equivalent to one million? Hint

The number of bytes in a megabyte

The number of millimeters in a kilometer

The number of bytes in a mebibyte

The number of watts in a megawatt

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Question 2 of 10

2. 6.02*10^23, or Avogadro's Number, is a number that chemistry students have learned for years. What exactly does the number represent to chemistry? Hint

The number of hydrogen electrons in one gram

The reciprocal of the radius of a hydrogen atom measured in meters

Mass of a proton/Mass of an electron

The number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12

3. 5730 years is an awfully long time. Archaeologists might use this number to determine the age of a discovery, because it's the half-life of a certain isotope. What takes that long to decay halfway? Hint

Selenium-60

Uranium-239

Carbon-14

Thorium-250

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Question 4 of 10

4. What planet's mass is 5.972*10^24 kg? Here's a hint: it's the second largest of the ones listed below. Hint

Venus

Neptune

Mars

Earth

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Question 5 of 10

5. 3.0857*10^12 kilometers is equal to what unit, used extensively in astronomy? It's defined as "the distance at which one AU subtends one second of arc". Hint

Lightyear

Parsec

Minimicter

Luminer

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Question 6 of 10

6. 1.013*10^5 Newtons/meters squared is equal to standard atmospheric pressure, or one atmosphere of pressure. One atmosphere is also equal to about 101 thousand of what unit that measures pressure, named after a French mathematician? Hint

Gauss

Pascal

Fermat

Lavoisier

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Question 7 of 10

7. A curie is equal to 3.7*10^10 becquerels. What do these units measure? Hint

Radioactivity

Electronegativity

Magnetic strength

Electric charge

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Question 8 of 10

8. Rubber's is between 1500 and 15000. Copper's is between 16 million and 19 million. Diamond tops these at over 150 million. What name is given to the measure of stiffness of elastic material, or the ratio of uniaxial stress over strain? Hint

Ricardo's modulus

Graham's modulus

Young's modulus

Hooke's modulus

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Question 9 of 10

9. At the time of writing in December, 2008, a certain Mersenne number was found to be almost thirteen million digits long and was equal to (2^243112609)-1. What was so special about this number? Hint

It was divisible by every number 1-1000

It was the digits of pi in order

It was a perfect number

It was prime

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Question 10 of 10

10. What name do we give to the number one, followed by 100 zeroes? A misspelling of this word led to the name of a company that is known worldwide. Hint

Chalconic

Megabit

Googol

Supramole

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. One million, or ten to the sixth power: According to the IEC, which of the following ISN'T equivalent to one million?

Answer: The number of bytes in a mebibyte

As the need for greater and greater information storage increases in today's society, a discrepancy arose over the definition of a megabyte. Some insisted that a megabyte was equal to 2 raised to the 20th bytes, whereas others used 10 raised to the 6th.

In December 1998, the IEC, or International Electrotechnical Commission, defined a new unit, called the mebibyte. The mebibyte is equal to 2^20 bytes, and the megabyte became 10^6.

2. 6.02*10^23, or Avogadro's Number, is a number that chemistry students have learned for years. What exactly does the number represent to chemistry?

Answer: The number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12

A mole is the SI unit for amount of a substance, and Avogadro's number is a measure of how many atoms are needed to make a gram of a substance. Therefore, Avogadro's constant is one of the most important numbers in chemistry and in science. Chemists in North America even celebrate Mole Day on October 23(10/23)!

Answer: Carbon-14

Carbon-14, which has eight neutrons rather than six, takes 5730 years to decay halfway. Based on concentrations of that isotope, which is found in organic material, scientists can determine how long it has decayed and thus how old the discovery is.

4. What planet's mass is 5.972*10^24 kg? Here's a hint: it's the second largest of the ones listed below.

Answer: Earth

The mass of Venus is within the same order of magniture (10^24) as Earth's, but Earth still is heavier. Mars has a mass of 6.42*10^23, and Neptune has a mass of 1.02*10^26. Earth is also the densest planet in the Solar System, dwarfing Saturn, which has a density less than water's.

5. 3.0857*10^12 kilometers is equal to what unit, used extensively in astronomy? It's defined as "the distance at which one AU subtends one second of arc".

Answer: Parsec

Don't get confused: a parsec is equal to about 3.26 lightyears. A parsec is derived from a right triangle with one leg of length one AU. The angle opposite that leg measures one second, or 1/3600 degrees. The other leg of that right triangle is equal to a parsec.

In addition, a unit called the megaparsec (Mpc) is used to measure even greater astronomical distances. The distance between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way is 0.77 Mpc.

Answer: Pascal

The pascal is the SI unit for measuring pressure and is equivalent to one newton per square meter. Blaise Pascal, a Frenchman who worked extensively with barometers and air pressure, lends his name to this unit. A gauss measures magnetic field, and the other two don't have units named after them.

7. A curie is equal to 3.7*10^10 becquerels. What do these units measure?

Answer: Radioactivity

Named after the Frenchmen and woman who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics, this unit measures radioactive distintegration. Gausses measure magnetic strength, coulombs measure electric charge, and electronegativity is measured by the Pauling Scale.

Answer: Young's modulus

Also known as the modulus of elasticity, the measure was named after Thomas Young, although Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was the developer of the original concept. Young's modulus measures pressure, and more elastic materials have a lower value on the scale.

9. At the time of writing in December, 2008, a certain Mersenne number was found to be almost thirteen million digits long and was equal to (2^243112609)-1. What was so special about this number?

Answer: It was prime

Mersenne primes are prime numbers that are equal to (2^n)-1, where n is prime. Unfortunately, not all prime numbers form Mersenne primes, so it has become a quest to discover which ones are prime. GIMPS, or the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, was started by George Woltman in 1996, and it has since held the record for the longest known primes discovered.

10. What name do we give to the number one, followed by 100 zeroes? A misspelling of this word led to the name of a company that is known worldwide.

Answer: Googol

While I won't attempt to write out that number here, suffice it to say that it is 10 to the hundredth power. In addition, a googolplex is the number 1 followed by a googol of zeroes!

Source: Author adams627

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